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From the Ted Talk by Tom Oxley: A brain implant that turns your thoughts into text
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Now we already know how to travel through the blood vessels. We've been doing it for 40 years, mostly going to the heart. If anyone here _____ has had a heart attack, there's a ______ good chance you've had a stent. A _____ is a metal scaffold delivered through a catheter, which opens up like a ______ into the blood vessel. Millions of ______ are _________ each year, not in the OR, but in the cath lab or ________ laboratory. It's now common in the cath lab to navigate up into the brain through the blood vessels. And there are 2,500 physicians who can now navigate their way up into the brain. But what's really amazing about this is that for BCIs we already know that devices can be left inside a _____ vessel, cells grow over it, ___________ it into the wall like a tattoo under the skin, and we're protected from that immune reaction. This is part of the reason why our team became the first in the world to receive a green light from the FDA to conduct clinical trials of a permanently implanted BCI.
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Original Text
Now we already know how to travel through the blood vessels. We've been doing it for 40 years, mostly going to the heart. If anyone here today has had a heart attack, there's a pretty good chance you've had a stent. A stent is a metal scaffold delivered through a catheter, which opens up like a flower into the blood vessel. Millions of stents are delivered each year, not in the OR, but in the cath lab or catheter laboratory. It's now common in the cath lab to navigate up into the brain through the blood vessels. And there are 2,500 physicians who can now navigate their way up into the brain. But what's really amazing about this is that for BCIs we already know that devices can be left inside a blood vessel, cells grow over it, incorporate it into the wall like a tattoo under the skin, and we're protected from that immune reaction. This is part of the reason why our team became the first in the world to receive a green light from the FDA to conduct clinical trials of a permanently implanted BCI.
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